How to Set-up the Project Office

The most comprehensive course for starting-up the Project Office

Jules Julien

This workshop, customized to fit the requirements of individual projects, helps project managers to set-up a project support office to oversee one project, or multiple projects. It is intended for organizations that need to rapidly deliver projects to meet business objectives. It is also intended for project managers who have experience managing their own projects and who now must oversee a group of projects.

The output of this workshop is a project management system for the project office, with active project files, customized to meet the unique needs of the project. Participation in this workshop also provides 1 year online access to the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit.

Using SharePoint for a Project Work Site

The Project Work Site, aka the virtual Project Management Office (PMO), is used by the project team and key project stakeholders to manage the project--it holds the project management system and contains the project management processes, guides, templates and artifacts.

Do you use a Virtual Project Management Office?

The Project Work Site is your virtual Project Management Office (PMO) on a large project. Can you do with-out one? The Project Work Site provides project management processes, guides, templates and contains the active project artifacts. It’s the information hub.

Features for the Project Work Site can include cloud file storage, collaboration, blogs, mobile accesses, calendars, and other tools for dealing with content or social media.

How to Mobilize a PMO in 6 Easy Steps

The start of a project is a busy time for the project office, which are often under pressure to provide the project processes and systems very quickly. A reasonable period of time must be spent planning the work and deciding upon priorities to enable a set of good quality processes to be produced. The time and effort spent must be in proportion to the size and complexity of the project.

The approach outlined below is designed to ensure the project office is developed in a way that satisfies the requirements of both the project manager and the project team.